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SIX DAVEN☂PORT PEARLWARE ORNITHOLOGICAL DESSERT PLATES, CIRCA 1810

painted with 'Lesser Dusky Parrot of Surinam', 'Crested-Longtailed-Pye of Cape of Good Hope', 'Green Parrot', 'Crowned Eagle of Guinea', 'Yellow Crested Cockatoo' and a 'Black and Blue Creeper of Surinam', titles to reverses in iron-red, impressed anchor and Davenport marks

diameter 7 ¾ in.

19.5 cm

The bird specimens are taken from hand-colored copperplate engravings by George Edwards from the multi-volume work The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine, published by Harrison, London in 1798-1800